The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 267

Chapter 267: 153 Recognizing Relatives (second update)

“Are you here to play cards?” the old lady asked.

The old man was startled.

Play cards?

The old lady said while cracking melon seeds, “We won’t play the leaf game today, we’ll play Pai Gow, starting at fifty copper plates.”

What was the Empress Dowager talking about? What leaf game? What Pai Gow?

The old man looked at the Empress Dowager intently, slowly standing up from the ground, he realized that the woman was a spitting image of the Empress Dowager, but her attire and demeanor were not so.

“What are you looking at?” the old lady asked impatiently.

“You… don’t recognize me anymore?” the old man asked, pointing to himself.

Upon his saying this, the old lady began to look at him closely.

He was not a bad looking man.

Somewhat familiar, too.

Where had she seen him before?

The old lady no longer remembered things from the past, and occasionally, fragments of memories came to her, but they were all quite disjointed.

But this old man gave her a slightly unusual feeling.

And wasn’t that unusual?

In the past, the old sacrificial wine master had often clashed with the Empress Dowager Zaung when he was in office.

He was a conservative, firmly opposed to the meddling of the imperial harem in politics, especially when women sat behind the curtain to rule the country.

Back in the days of the late emperor, the old sacrificial wine master had submitted several court papers urging the late emperor to dispose of the Empress Dowager, accusing her of being a demon who deceived the harem, allowed her relatives to meddle in politics, and was ruthless and murderous.

The Empress Dowager had once been relegated to the cold palace by the late emperor, thanks to the old sacrificial wine master.

Although she managed to walk out of the cold palace within half a year thanks to her superior palace fighting skills, she had lost half a year’s worth of silver, and had invested a lot of her previous savings.

Cutting off her money, was like killing her parents!

After that, the Empress Dowager considered the old sacrificial wine master a thorn in her flesh.

The old sacrificial wine master’s banishment to the border lands for five years, his suffering, and his aging were all orchestrated by the Empress Dowager.

The two fought fiercely until the late emperor died, the Empress Dowager killed the crown prince and hoisted the son of Imperial Consort Jing onto the throne, becoming the all-powerful Empress Dowager.

Only then was a temporary victory declared between the two.

The reason why it was temporary was that the old sacrificial wine master controlled the Guozijian, where all the most talented young people in the Zhan country were gathered.

Exaggeratively, the old sacrificial wine master controlled the future of the Zhan country.

The Empress Dowager Zaung schemed to take over the power of the Guozijian, at that time, Prince An was about to return to the country, the Empress Dowager Zaung proposed to the Emperor to establish a junior sacrificial wine position in the Guozijian.